Did you ever wonder which WindowsÂ® based Operating System is better for 3dsmax?
Or wonder how much benefit a second CPU would add to overall performance?
If you've ever experienced these type of questions or participated in arguments involving them, then this article is for you.

Benchmarking

As you will see, I ran a wide variety of benchmarks for this report. All of them were 3dsmax2 specific. Before I started running the benchmarks, I clean installed Windows 98 and Windows NT™ 4 with SP4, and then clean installed 3dsmax in both operating systems. I made sure that the hard drive had 0% fragmentation and that each Operating System had the latest patches and updates.
The default settings for 3dsmax2 were used in both cases, including 3dsmax's default software HEIDI driver.
Different clock speeds were accomplished by raising and lowering the Front Side Bus.
The resolution that each Operating system ran in was 1024x768 in 16 bit color.

Unfortunately I was unable to run these tests on different computer systems, but my starting premise was that configuration I have would be a most common configuration found among users. With better resources perhaps, more wider tests could be performed.